Whether or not you feel your phone is the greatest and most indispensable tool in your life, this article points out the extent of our phone’s impact our brain. Read the full article in The Wall Street Journal

My newest piece focuses on political diversity in the workplace. In a country more polarized than perhaps at any other time in history, it’s still important to avoid political homogeneity in the workplace. In addition, I offers some principles I’ve used as a boss for smoothly navigating political discussions. Read the full story in The Harvard…

This is something we’ve talked about often – the high percent of income Americans spend on housing and the percent dropped slightly in the last reading. They measure the percent of the renting population spending over 30% of their income on rent – it was 49% but just fell to 48% in the last reading….

While it’s easy to see both the points of view of the Black cabbies and the often-immigrant Uber drivers in London, the key is designing a solution so both sides feel equally vindicated and compromised. Read the full story in The New York Times

Equating the price of a drug to the value of a life is not, as pointed out, the way fire departments or hospitals respond to life threatening situations, so why should drug makers use this analogy all the time? Read the full article in The New York Times

We keep adding jobs and the unemployment rate is extremely low. So why don’t overall wages rise more that 2-2.5% year over a year? Holding constant the retirement of high paid baby boomers and millennials entering the work force at starting salaries, we should still normally see more wage growth and tightness in the labor…

Kari wrote an op-ed for CNBC today. In it she describes a useful set of principles that anyone can utilize in this new age of market unpredictability and bizarre presidential Tweets. Read the full article on CNBC.com

Perhaps because Amazon and others attract billions of consumers with rock bottom prices, no firms have money to pay higher wages, although they need plenty of workers to fill orders. Read the full article in The New York Times